Sentences with phrase «estimating their calorie content»

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The current system of calorie counting on which our nutrition labels are based «provides only an estimate of the energy content of foods,» Malden C. Nesheim, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, said at a 2013 meeting of the international nonprofit Institute for Food Technologists.

Once a person is well versed in the calorie content of their staple foods I suppose they could just estimate but faced with an ever increasing exposure to over foods I imagine some calorie counting is an inevitable part of healthy living.

When Shelly Hester and her colleagues analyzed 22 published studies on the metabolizable energy content of breast milk, the researchers were able to estimate the calories found per serving: About 65 calories per 100 milliliters (mL) of breast milk.

According to one speaker at this year's annual meeting of the Institute for Food Technologists, called «Re-examining the Energy Value of Food», the current system provides merely an estimate of the energy content of foods and therefore doesn't tell the whole picture when it comes to the calories your body extracts from food.

I'm not sure of the total calories but I would estimate the protein content per ball (if you make 25 small ones) to be between 5 - 7 grams of protein per ball, based on the average protein content of protein powder, peanut butter + oats added together.